Word: mansfield
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Part of the Democrats' difficulty is the lackluster floor leadership of Montana's Senator Mike Mansfield. A quiet, gentle man, Mansfield has notably failed to rally his colleagues behind Kennedy's programs. Explains one Democratic Senator: "Lyndon Johnson used to wring our arms out of their sockets; but then he'd give us a bear hug afterwards, and we tolerated him. Mike wouldn't even think of putting a gentle twist on a man's arm; we love him, but he gets nothing." In the vacuum, such senior Democrats as Oklahoma's Robert...
...away as Mackinac Island in Lake Huron, even dispatched a Navy PT boat to fetch three Democrats from the nuclear merchant ship Savannah, cruising off Norfolk, Va. At one point, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, acting as majority leader in the absence of Montana's Mike Mansfield, considered ordering the sergeant at arms to place absent Senators under arrest and bring them to the chamber. The quorum was achieved only at 3 p.m., five hours after the session started, when North Dakota's Republican Senator Milton Young, still wearing his windbreaker, arrived from a Virginia golf course...
...very convincing. So I jumped from a Cessna 182 at 2500 feet with a 28-foot "skydiver" parachute over the Mansfield airport grounds. Mansfield is the headquarters for the Cambridge Parachute Club, the oldest club of its type in the country, having been formed...
Soutter is the only Harvard undergraduate serving as an executive member of the C.P.C., which includes many students from other New England colleges. He heads up a group of about ten Harvard students who jump regularly as members of the C.P.C at Mansfield, the traditional headquarters for Crimson teams. Presently, this group is preparing to represent Harvard in the national intercollegiates, to be held in Orange...
...like most modern sports such as sports car racing, motor-cycling, or skindiving, parachuting is not inexpensive. At Mansfield, for example, a first jump costs $25 the following two $15 and the next two $10--a total of $75 for the five static-line student jumps and membership in the C.P.C. The cost of each subsequent free-fall jump averages only about $3, however...